Section: Module 2: Environmental and Occupational Agents | Environmental Health | NextGenU.org
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Competency covered in this module:
- Describe the direct and indirect human, ecological, and safety effects of major environmental and occupational agents.
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Students mustViewRead the entire page. Optionally, you can click on each title to complement each agent's information.
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Students mustViewRead the entire page up to the heading "Additional Topics" and click on each disease heading. Inside each disease page, read until the heading "What is NIEHS doing" or until the end of the page if the heading is missing.
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Asynchronous Learning Activity 2: Describe health outcomes related to major environmental hazards (Completion time: 4 hours) Forum
In this activity, you will create a tool designed to educate community leaders about the impact of environmental hazards in human health
Step 1: Select your preferred format/media to create your educational tool. You can create Slides(PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation), a piece of writing in a Blog format (with pictures included), a trifold, a video, an infographic for social media, etc.
Step 2: Create a tool directed to laypeople explaining the direct and indirect impact of environmental hazards on human health. Describe 2 direct and 2 indirect health outcomes and their relationship to an environmental hazard of particular concern in your community. Be sure to present an engaging material using this resource as a reference, and use language correspondent to a B1 level for your audience (use this resource as a reference). Your tool must have a maximum of 20 slides in case of a presentation, 500 words in a blog format, or 5 minutes length in case of choosing a video format.
All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. See the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library for instructions: APA citation resource (references are excluded from word counts).
Step 3: Self-Analysis and Enhancement
Before you submit, engage in an introspective self-analysis by systematically reviewing each component of your work. Reflect on what aspects of your work were executed well and what could be enhanced. Proceed to refine these elements in your work.
Step 4: Submit your assignment by clicking “add a new discussion topic” below, completing the fields, and clicking “post to forum”.
OPTIONAL Step 5: Interact (10 minutes)
If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”
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Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 1
To access the quiz, click on the name of the quiz provided above. On the following screen, click the attempt quiz button to view the case studies and respond to the questions.
TO PASS THIS QUIZ, YOU MUST OBTAIN A SCORE OF 80%
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Students mustView
Read the content under the heading occupational toxicology on pages 8-13.
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Students mustView
Read the entire Document
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Students mustView
Read the content under the heading "1. Psychosocial Risk Factors" from pages 3 to 9.
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Students mustView
This document provides comprehensive information about physical agents. Read the content under the following headlines(Including subheadlines):
- "1.1 What do you know about noise?"
- "1.2 Which are the health effects?"
- "2.1 What do you know about vibration?"
- "2.2 Which are the health effects?"
- "3.1 What do you know about radiation?"
- "3.2 Which are the health effects?"
- "3.4 What do you know about non-ionizing radiation?"
- "3.5 Which are the health effects?"
- "4.1 What do you know about lighting?"
- "4.2 Which are the health effects?"
- "5.1 What do you know about cold environment?"
- "5.2 Which are the health effect?"
- "B) Hot environment" on page 26
- "5.6 Which are the health effect?"
- "6.1 What do you know about the occupational exposure at air pressure?"
- "6.2 Which are the health effect?"
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Read from the content under the heading "Abstract" to the heading "6.3 Systems and Power: The Ethical Importance of Ecological and Social Context."
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Students mustView
Read the content under the headings "Abstract," "Results," and "Discussion."
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Students mustView
Read from the beginning of the page until the heading "Board Certification."
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Students mustView
Read the entire table
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Read the entire page and analyze how travel medicine is related to environmental health.
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Discussion Post: Defend the role of environmental health in prevention and control of occupational agents. (Completion time: 60 minutes) Forum
In this activity you will discuss the role of environmental health in prevention and control of occupational agents.
Step 1: Write a 200-300 words paragraph answering the following questions:
What activities are oriented to control occupational agents?
Who is responsible for implementing these activities?
Why is an environmental health approach needed for the detection and control of these agents?
All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. See the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library for instructions: APA citation resource (references are excluded from word counts).
Step 2: To share your work, click on the button at the bottom of the screen labeled 'Add a new discussion topic.' and include the title "Discussion: Defend the role of environmental medicine in prevention and control of occupational agents" in the subject line.
Step 3: To complete the activity, you will also need to comment on at least one other post made by your peers in a respectful and professional manner. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply back. To post a reply, click on the particular discussion, then click on 'reply'.
OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)
If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”
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Discussion Post: The role of environmental health in aerospace medicine (Completion time: 60 minutes) Forum
In this activity, you will discuss the ways that environmental health improves travel safety, and how it relates to aerospace medicine.
Step 1: Write a 200-300 words paragraph answering the following questions:
What environmental risks the study of aerospace medicine is dedicated to?
What are the main environmental risks to travelers?
How do professionals in aerospace medicine improve health, promote safety, and improve the performance of people who work or travel in unusual environments?
All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. See the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library for instructions: APA citation resource (references are excluded from word counts).
Step 2: To share your work, click on the button at the bottom of the screen labeled 'Add a new discussion topic.' and include the title "Discussion: Discuss how environmental health improves travel safety, and how it relates to aerospace medicine." in the subject line.
Step 3: To complete the activity, you will also need to comment on at least one other post made by your peers in a respectful and professional manner. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply back. To post a reply, click on the particular discussion, then click on 'reply'.
OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)
If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”
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Quiz: Module 2: Lesson 2:
To access the quiz, click on the name of the quiz provided above. On the following screen, click the attempt quiz button to view the case studies and respond to the questions.
TO PASS THIS QUIZ, YOU MUST OBTAIN A SCORE OF 80%
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Read the entire page and watch the video(10 min 10 sec)